LOL, best reply.

 

great- I need an app.

my brain is confused trying to remember grade 9 math.


... is there a metric version of that formula which might be easier to do in the head ?
( cause metric equivalencies are usually easier to calculate on the fly)

Mike

 

Here is another chart that goes to 85 mph.


http://webmaster10.com/ldr/windchill.html

 

What about 80 MPH at 25 degrees. That's what I was riding in on Monday.

 

No wonder it was a little chilly riding through Flagstaff last month at 80 mph. Temp was showing 26 degrees. Thank goodness for heated gear!

 

Had to test you on this and yip, there are actually quite a few apps. I chose Wind Chill Light as it lets you select units of temp and speed, and I work in Celsius and Miles (looonnnngg story)

Very good.

Problem is there is an "old wind chill" and a "new wind chill". Maybe Global Warming affected the formula ;-)

 

Very interesting, explains why my face starts to freeze in the low 40's.

 

exactly.

 

I rarely ride naked anymore so maybe the charts do not apply to me, but I did leave home this New Years Day at 9:30 AM when the temperature was a frosty 27F and rode for over an hour at 70+ on the freeway to meet and ride our annual rain or shine New Years Day ride. Naked, that made it -21F by the old charts.

This was all possible due to Gerbings heated gear, a modular helmet with a fleece face mask and insulated boots. This on my sporty, no windshield, no hwy lowers, no handguards, just a few electrons slowed enough by the Gerbings resistors to keep me warm and toasty for 7-1/2 hours of unsual sun for the Nothwet.

I was the only one of the ride who did not complain everytime we stopped about cold hands. I suspect that at least 3 of the riders will have heated gloves by this weekend.

I may feel the cold more now that I am an official senior citizen, an early baby boomer, but if I knew then what I know now about heated gear, especially heated gloves, I would have saved up and bought them in 1964. No more getting home only to find out that your hands are so cold I could not hold the key or get it into the lock. No more stopping at a gas station to run hot water over my hands. Not for the last 10 years when I purchased my heated gloves. The heated jacket liner just added total comfort, but it was the hands that used to do me in.

 

Well duh - everybody already knew that! HAHA Even with that formula, I don't believe I am smart enough to figure out how to use it....